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GUARD PORSHUTTER FASTENERS.

No. 596,288. Patented Dec. 28,1897.

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CHARLES SMITH, OF CENTRAL FALLS, RHODE ISLAND.

GUARD FOR SHUTTER=FASTENERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 596,288, datedDecember28, 1897.

Application filed October 26,1897. Serial No. 656,465. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES SMITH, a citizen of the United States,residing atOentral Falls, in the county of Providence and State of RhodeIsland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBird-Fenders for Window-Shutters; and I do declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in deviceswhich are intended for use in preventing sparrows and other birds fromnesting within the space intervening between window-shutters or blindsand the face of the building.

Serious trouble is frequently occasioned by sparrows to the owners andoccupants of houses which are provided'with outside hinged blinds orshutters. The birds find that the space intervening between the blind(which has been opened back against the face of the building) and thewall affords them a convenient place within which to build their nests,the latch or locking device attached to the blind, with itscorresponding or engaging member attached to the wall of the building,affording a convenient support for the nest.

The present invention has for its object the provision of a simple andinexpensive device which may be placed directly above the catch or lookupon the face of the building and which will serve to prevent the birdsfrom alighting thereon.

To this end and to such others as the invention may pertain, the sameconsists in the peculiar construction of the bird-fender, all as morefully hereinafter described, shown in the accompanying drawings, andthen specifically defined in the appended claim.

The invention is clearly described in the accompanyin g drawings, which,with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of thisspecification, and in which drawings-.

Figure 1 is a perspective view in which my fender is shown in actualuse. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective View of the device detached. Fig.3 is a longitudinal section through the fender.

Reference now being had to the details of r the drawings byletter, Adesignates the body 5 5 portion of the device, which is shaped like anordinary wire nail, having one of its ends sharpened and its oppositeend provided with an enlarged portion or head B. At a point intermediateof its ends the said body portion or nail A is provided with a collar ordisk or suitable stop, as shown at C. Sleeved upon the portion of thebody portion which is intermediate of the disk or stop 0 and the head 13is a sleeve or tube D, which is adapted to rotate freely upon the bodyportion. Carried by the tubular portion or sleeve D is a disk E, theperiphery of which disk is provided with horizontally-extending arms orprojections F F, which arms in the present instance are shown asextending alternately upon opposite sides of the disk.

In use the body portion is attached to the face of the house or otherbuilding by driving with a hammer at a point adjacent to and directlyover the catch or fastening for the blind or window-shutter. It will beseen that when the device is thus placed it will serve to effectuallyprevent birds from alighting upon the catch which is thus protected.Should a bird alight upon the arms or projections F, therotatableportion of the device will at once turn, and the bird will be preventedfrom perching.

While I have described and shown a device 8 5 which is speciallydesigned and adapted for use in connection with blinds orwindow-shutters, still it will be at once evident that by altering thesize or bymaking slight changes in the specific details of constructionthe device may be equally well adapted for use in other locations inwhich it may be considered either necessary or desirable to preventpigeons or other birds from perching or from nest-building.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim to be new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

A device for preventing birds from perching on blind-shutter fasteners,consisting of the shouldered spindle A, the hollow cylinder mounted onsaid spindle, a disk E about the cylinder, and circular series of arms Fdisposed at right angles to said disk and pointing in oppositedirections, combined as shown and described. IO

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES SMITH. \Vitnesses ALBERT L. SHERMAN, JOHN W. BATTYE.

